Beyond the Bypass: ASTRA and the Arabian Peninsula’s New Energy Architecture
ASTRA proposes resilient Arabian Sea energy corridors linking Saudi Arabia and Yemen, bypassing vulnerable chokepoints.
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Defence & Security
Analysis, reports and commentary from Power & Corridors connected to this topic.
Analysis
The Arctic Port Race Is Becoming a Corridor Race
From Churchill and Nuuk to Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and Kamchatka, a network of ports, railways and maritime gateways is beginning to reshape the geography of Arctic trade.
Defence & Security
The Bear Gap Is Becoming a Real Arctic Security Problem
From Barentsburg to Severomorsk, surveillance, submarines and undersea infrastructure are converging around one of the North Atlantic’s least understood strategic passages
Defence & Security
From Bandar Abbas to Brownsville: America Is Building the Shipyard for Autonomous War
The US Navy spent years testing unmanned systems in Middle Eastern waters. The attack on Iran’s submarine facilities showed what that experimentation was preparing to deliver.
Defence & Security
Türkiye’s Blue Homeland: Doctrine, Sea Power and the New Maritime Map
Türkiye’s Blue Homeland doctrine turns maritime geography into strategic power projection.
Analysis
The US-Iran MoU: Ships First, Nuclear Later
Hormuz may reopen, but nuclear, proxy and maritime risks remain unresolved.
Defence & Security
What Canada Should Learn from the UAE, Türkiye and Ukraine
Canada should diversify defence partners and build sovereign industrial capacity at home.
Defence & Security
Hormuz as a Live Testbed for Unmanned Warfare: Drones, Sea Robots and the New Maritime Battlespace
Hormuz is becoming a live testbed for drones, sea robots, and escalation.
Analysis
Gold, Shipping and Sovereignty: Why Canada’s Hope Bay Mine Matters
A gold mine with wider significance Canada’s Arctic has long been defined by distance, high operating costs and a lack of infrastructure. However, Agnico Eagle’s decision to revive the Hope Bay gold project in Nunavut shows how this calculation is beginning to change. On 19 May 2026, the
Maritime
Private Force at Sea: Floating Armouries, Armed Guards and the New Maritime Security Economy
The return of private maritime security is not only an anti-piracy story. It is a warning that the state’s monopoly over force at sea is being reworked through contracts, floating armouries, weapons licences, insurance demands and commercial risk management.
Analysis
From Desert Logic to Arctic Strategy
Canada needs Arctic statecraft integrating infrastructure, defence development, industry, and realistic limits.
Maritime
Pirates Are Only Part of the Problem
Maritime insecurity is widening from piracy and armed robbery to state seizures, military strikes, narcotics interdiction and chokepoint coercion
Geopolitics
The Dealmaker’s Trap
Trump’s dealmaking freezes war, preserves leverage, but deepens instability, distrust, and global costs.